Reflective Commentary

Reflective Commentary

When I read the brief for this assignment, I was a bit apprehensive. I have written numerous essays but have never written a literature review. So this was a bit of an unknown for me. I started by researching into my topic, this helped me make a started and build my research folder. The more research, the stronger it will be. When I have compiled a good range of resources, I looked up about literature reviews. I managed to get an idea of the format they should take. I went through my work and choose the key points and wrote them down in sections to organise.

I decided to break my review down into sections, as I found this easier to organise and manage. I started writing the review and found it wasn’t as bad as I initially thought. I believe I still can improve it, my critical analysis definitely needs work. This is something I have been working on, and I can see progress. I hope I have done this review correctly, it was a bit difficult as it is something I have never done before, but I would like to think that I did manage ok.  

When looking at authenticity, I started mainly looking for books and journals. Which are mostly written by scholars. But there is limits to the amount of research you can find, so I looked further a field and found actual studies. Either commissioned by reputable organisations or by academics. I have looked online as a lot of information can be found there, especially interviews and articles. I have found numerous recent internet articles on the inequality in the arts. The majority are by academics and scholars, others are by journalists, and some by actual artists. I believe it is important, especially for this topic to get variety in research material. By looking at artists and interviews, you can get a sense of experience, and this is important, as facts can only get you so far. I also found readers comments quite useful, not as far as scholarly quality but it gives you an idea of how people think, how they talk about this subject. I looked at what the authors were saying. The authenticity of what they were saying was important. I find when researching the arts, the sources are more varied, the sources come form many places. Whereas when I did my previous degree, the research was mainly in books and journals. The arts, I have found has a vast platform of information to be utilized.